“But I've just noticed that my mind is asleep.”

“Here I am on the shore of Brittany. Let the cities light up in the evening. My day is done. I am leaving Europe. The sea air will burn my lungs. Lost climates will tan me. I will swim, trample the grass, hung, and smoke especially. I will drink alcohol as strong as boiling metal--just as my dear ancestors did around their fires.”

“L'aube exalteé ainsi qu'un peuple de colombes, et j'ai vu quelquefois ce que l'homme a cru voir!(And dawn, exalted like a host of doves - and then I've seen what men believe they've seen!)”

“My wisdom is as spurned as chaos. What is my nothingness, compared to the amazement that awaits you?”

“Unhappiness was my god.”

“What is my nothingness to the stupor that awaits you?”

“By being too sensitive I have wasted my life.”